Born in South Carolina on February 7, 1966, Chris Rock was raised in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. As he grew up, he dreamed of becoming a comedian. His dream started to take the shape of reality when he was eighteen: while performing at New York's Comedy Strip, he met Eddie Murphy, who was so impressed with the caustic young funnyman that he cast him in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987). After that he had small roles in a couple of films and then he was a cast member of SNL, but only for about three years. Then he went on to do more films and The Chris Rock Show on HBO. He even directed and stared in the movie Head of State.

Filmography

Head of State (2003)

Bad Company (2002)

Down to Earth (2001)

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Osmosis Jones (2001)

Pootie Tang (2001)

Nurse Betty (2000)

Dogma (1999)

Dr. Dolittle (1998)

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

Sgt. Bilko (1996)

The Immortals (1995)

Panther (1995)

CB4 (1993)

New Jack City (1991)

Next Movie(s)

MadagascarStarring: (voices) Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jada-Pinkett Smith, David SchwimmerRelease Date: Spring 2005This movie focuses on four residents and "stars" of the Central Park Zoo in New York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra (Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him, and eventually all four are captured and put in boxes to ship them back to the continent their species are originally from: Africa. An accident at sea, however, strands them on the shore of Madagascar. Having had humans take care of them their entire life, the four know nothing of surviving in the wild, or that one of them, the lion, is genetically predisposed to eat his three best friends. Exploring their surroundings, the four friends soon meet the Malagasy locals (a type of lemur given to having loud "rave-like" dance parties) and their carnivorous enemies, the fousas. As the two sides try to use these four new, strange (and large) friends to their benefit, our heroes are also confronted with the reality of their predestined roles in nature... (and yes, it's a comedy :).